Mac users: Where do you put the dock?

[tjluoma]

I didn’t get a chance to say that when I was in college, using NeXTStep on a NeXTStation, I moved my dock from the right (where NeXTStep had it by default) to the left by entering a dwrite (the precursor to what is now called a defaults write command) with a certain number of pixels as the offset. I didn’t know the size of the screen, so I had to do it by trial and error, and keep restarting the dock to see if I had moved it far enough.

My first guess was not nearly large enough, so I had the dock going down the middle of the screen.

Anyway, my “dock on the left” goes “way back” is what I’m saying.

BTW - if you want to move the dock from left-to-center-to-right-to-left-etc with AppleScript, I posted that over here:

Moving the dock by Shortcut?

I’ve updated my AppleScript so that pressing ⌥ D repeatedly will cycle through the options: left » bottom » right » left, etc tell application "System Events" to tell dock preferences if screen edge is bottom then set screen edge to right else if screen edge is right then set screen edge to left else if screen edge is left then set screen edge to bottom end if end tell

because no matter where you put it, there are sometimes when it might be in the way.

I hooked the AppleScript to Keyboard Maestro and assigned it to Option+D (since hiding/unhiding is Command+Option+D) so I can quickly move it when needed.